Outer Harbor
Railway Station
Oliver Rogers Rd, Outer Harbor
You are in Kaurna Country which extends
from Clare in the Mid North to Cape Jervis
on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
Kardi Yarta
(Cultural Park)
Cnr Victoria Rd/Pelican Point Rd,
Outer Harbor
The northern most tip of the Lefevre
Peninsula was a significant site of the
Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains. This
site was called Mudlangga (place of the
nose) a natural corral for herding emus.
The area was created by the ancient
ancestors when they made the Port River.
It is mentioned in the Dreaming story
of Tjilbruke and how they hunted and
trapped emus. The coastline can
be dated to 6,000 years.
Lewis O’Brien
Lefevre
Community Centre
541 Victoria Rd, Osborne
“We had certain people who were
managers of country. It was a magical
system because everyone looked after the
land. We always lived well back from the
river so it stayed pure and so the animals
can drink the water.”
Lewis O’Brien
Taperoo
Victoria Rd, Taperoo
“Back then, some of our best friends
were white kids. There was one Italian kid
among fifty of us who used to get on the
bus or train from Outer Harbor to the Port
as a big adventure. He was the only kid
who wasn’t black or white, he was the
only one who was different.”
Mary Williams
Meyer Oval
Yerlo Dr, Taperoo
The houses that most people moving from
the missions were housed in were Housing
Trust ‘emergency’ houses constructed
from fibrolite on open or slatted footings.
Snowdens Beach
George Robertson Dr, Taperoo
“I came to the Port Adelaide area when I
was about 13 or 14, we were still camping
people then. I was camping on Snowdens
beach with my Aunty Lavinia Edwards
(Aunty Viney), my mother’s older sister. We
had a shower or tub bath once a week.
Most of the time as a kid we spent roaming
around swimming in the river, getting fish,
getting food in the tidal swamps at West
Lakes. You could put nets out and get birds
and crabs and shellfish. It was a good life.”
Georgina Williams
Birkenhead
Reserve
Cnr Fletcher/Semaphore Rds, Birkenhead
“Across the Port River to Torrens Island
and beyond were the Medinda people, the
‘Emu’ people. They were Kaurna as well but
a different family group to Lartelare’s family.
The Kaurna on Lefevre Peninsula, on the
western side of the Port River,
didn’t associate much with the Kaurna
on Torrens Island.”
Kaurna Cultural Heritage Survey
Yakkanninna
Cnr Semaphore/
Causeway Rds, Exeter
The title Yakkanninna (Sisters) is symbolic
throughout the artwork in many ways. It
is designed to symbolise the sharing of
cultural tradition between the two ‘sister
cultures’ at Raukan Mission, where Kaurna
and Ngarrindjerri people were removed
after being dispossessed of their traditional
homelands. The title also symbolises
women sharing in the act of weaving –
a spiritual process.
Lartelare
Wirra Dr, New Port
“Lartelare lived on the Lefevre Peninsula
side of the Port River. Her totem was the
swan. It was Lartelare’s responsibility to
take care of the swans on the river, to
ensure they had food so that the swans in
turn could provide a food source for the
Aboriginal people in the area.
This site was one of the main camping
grounds for Kaurna people, particularly for
women, men camped on the other side of
the river.”
Kaurna Cultural Heritage Survey
Harts Mill
Adjacent to Mundy St, Port Adelaide
The artwork at Harts Mill celebrates and
values the strong Aboriginal connection
to the place and area. It represents the
sophistication of Aboriginal culture and
language that have survived for over
60,000 years..
Waterside
Workers Hall
Nile St, Port Adelaide
“In the past there were too many
broken down Nungas who didn’t feel they
were adequate enough. But now they’re all
there ready to do anything,
it’s a good thing.”
“We’ve never taken to the gun to
defend our rights. We’re a peaceful people,
that’s where we come from. 6,000 years of
a peace law governing you, you negotiate,
that’s what you do. But the ones coming in
were used to warring all the time, and they’ll
say things to appease you, but didn’t do
what they promised.”
Georgina Williams
Visitor Information
Centre
66 Commercial Rd, PortAdelaide
“We worked with the whites - we didn’t
feel the fear, we didn’t see that we were
separate. The early whites saw us as
separate heathens who didn’t fear them.
But we learned over the years that
white-fellas didn’t see us as equal, saw
us as different, simple, uneducated, and
they took our most precious thing (the
land) away from us. And that’s when
we started fighting for our culture and
traditions, and we’re still fighting for
these things today.”
Pat Waria-Read
Frickers Corner
Cnr Divett/Lipson St, Port Adelaide
“I left school at a young age and went
to work with my dad lumping at Cresco
Fertiliser on Victoria Road next to the
cement works. A lot of Aboriginal men
worked there. I started lumping barley
and wheat with my father and uncles.
It was skilled work, the stack had to be
built correctly.”
Tauto Sansbury
Dale St Sunday
Club and Dale St
Meeting Place
Dale St, Port Adelaide
“A lot of Aboriginal families were around
then, the Sunday Club proved it. It was
in the heart of Port Adelaide and people
came from everywhere just to attend the
events or activities on the day.”
Margaret and Kathy Brodie
Glow Taltaityai
(Glowing Emus)
Walter Morris Dr, Port Adelaide
“We need to use words and tell our
stories in a way that fits into our
Aboriginal way of thinking. Aboriginal
stories are not just dreamtime stories,
they’re rules for living, for working with
each other, for telling our young people
that there are consequences if you break
these rules.”
Pat Waria-Rea
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Kaurna Trail
Port Canal Reserve,
Minories St, Port Adelaide
Tauondi College worked with the City
of Port Adelaide Enfield to develop the
Kaurna Trail around Port Adelaide with
six interpretive markers.
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